fix link rot in README.vms

Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20011010171057.01bd77c8@exchi01>

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@12399

1 files changed, 20 insertions, 26 deletions

diff --git a/README.vms b/README.vms
index 259e04e3f0..d44cd129bf 100644
--- a/README.vms
+++ b/README.vms
@@ -92,8 +92,7 @@ of web/ftp sites and is distributed on the OpenVMS Freeware CD-ROM
 from Compaq.
 
     http://www.fsf.org/order/ftp.html
-    http://www.openvms.compaq.com/freeware/GZIP/
-    ftp://ftp.compaq.com/pub/VMS/
+    http://www.openvms.compaq.com/freeware/
     http://www.crinoid.com/utils/
 
 =item 2  VMS TAR 
@@ -103,20 +102,18 @@ available from a number of web/ftp sites and is distributed on the OpenVMS
 Freeware CD-ROM from Compaq.
 
     ftp://ftp.lp.se/vms/
-    http://www.openvms.compaq.com/freeware/VMSTAR/
-    ftp://ftp.compaq.com/pub/VMS/
+    http://www.openvms.compaq.com/freeware/
 
 =item 3  UNZIP.EXE for VMS
 
 A combination decompressor and archive reader/writer for *.zip files.  
 Unzip is available from a number of web/ftp sites.
 
-    http://www.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/UnZip.html
-    http://www.openvms.compaq.com/freeware/INFO-ZIP/
-    ftp://ftp.compaq.com/pub/VMS/
+    http://www.info-zip.org/UnZip.html
+    http://www.openvms.compaq.com/freeware/
     ftp://ftp.openvms.compaq.com/
     ftp://ftp.madgoat.com/madgoat/
-    ftp://ftp.wku.edu/vms/
+    ftp://ftp.process.com/vms-freeware/
 
 =item 4  MOST
 
@@ -126,7 +123,7 @@ regular expression searching).  Most builds with the slang
 library on VMS.  Most and slang are available from:
 
     ftp://space.mit.edu/pub/davis/
-    ftp://ftp.wku.edu/vms/narnia/most.zip
+    ftp://ftp.process.com/vms-freeware/narnia/
 
 =item 5 GNU PATCH and DIFFUTILS for VMS
 
@@ -136,6 +133,7 @@ distribution) and applied with GNU patch.  VMS ports of these utilities are
 available here:
 
     http://www.crinoid.com/utils/
+    http://www.openvms.compaq.com/freeware/
 
 =back
 
@@ -202,7 +200,7 @@ source into:
 
    DKA200:[PERL-5_10_2...]
 
-Then the PERL_SETUP.COM that gets written out by Configure.com will
+Then the PERL_SETUP.COM that gets written out by CONFIGURE.COM will
 try to DEFINE your installation PERL_ROOT to be:
 
    DKA200:[PERL-5_10_2_ROOT.]
@@ -221,15 +219,12 @@ below.
 =head2 Changing compile-time options (optional) for Perl on VMS
 
 Most of the user definable features of Perl are enabled or disabled in
-[.VMS]CONFIG.VMS. There is code in there to Do The Right Thing, but that 
-may end up being the wrong thing for you.  Make sure you understand what 
-you are doing since inappropriate changes to CONFIG.VMS can render perl 
-unbuildable.
-
-Odds are that there's nothing here to change, unless you're on a version of
-VMS later than 6.2 and DEC C later than 5.6.  Even if you are, the correct
-values will still be chosen, most likely.  Poking around here should be
-unnecessary.
+configure.com, which processes the hints file config_h.SH.  There is
+code in there to Do The Right Thing, but that  may end up being the
+wrong thing for you.  Make sure you understand what you are doing since
+inappropriate changes to configure.com or config_h.SH can render perl 
+unbuildable; odds are that there's nothing in there you'll need to
+change.
 
 The one exception is the various *DIR install locations. Changing those
 requires changes in genconfig.pl as well.  Be really careful if you need to
@@ -441,7 +436,7 @@ You'll need CMKRNL privilege to install the new dcltables.exe.
 
 On systems that are using perl quite a bit, and particularly those with 
 minimal RAM, you can boost the performance of perl by INSTALLing it as
-a known image.  PERLSHR.EXE is typically larger than 2500 blocks
+a known image.  PERLSHR.EXE is typically larger than 3000 blocks
 and that is a reasonably large amount of IO to load each time perl is 
 invoked. 
 
@@ -550,7 +545,7 @@ though the call specified that the change should not persist after
 Perl exited.  This is fixed by DEC CSC patch ALPACRT04_061 or later.
 See also:
 
-    http://ftp.service.compaq.com/patches/.new/openvms.html
+    http://ftp.service.compaq.com/patches/.new/openvms.shtml
 
 =back
 
@@ -565,7 +560,6 @@ of source code modification to work again.
 
     http://slacvx.slac.stanford.edu/HELP/GCC
     http://www.progis.de/
-    http://vms.gnu.org/
     http://www.lp.se/products/gnu.html
 
 =head1 Mailing Lists
@@ -592,13 +586,13 @@ Vmsperl pages on the web include:
     http://www.sidhe.org/vmsperl/index.html
     http://www.crinoid.com/
     http://duphy4.physics.drexel.edu/pub/cgi_info.htmlx
-    http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/VMS/
+    http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/by-module/VMS/
     http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/vmsperl/
-    http://nucwww.chem.sunysb.edu/htbin/software_list.cgi
     http://www.best.com/~pvhp/vms/
-    http://bkfug.kfunigraz.ac.at/~binder/perl.html
+    http://www-ang.kfunigraz.ac.at/~binder/perl.html
     http://lists.perl.org/showlist.cgi?name=vmsperl
     http://archive.develooper.com/vmsperl@perl.org/
+    http://www.openvms.compaq.com/openvms/products/ips/apache/csws_modperl.html
 
 =head1 SEE ALSO
 
@@ -609,7 +603,7 @@ of extending vmsperl with CPAN modules after Perl has been installed.
 
 =head1 AUTHORS
 
-Revised 5-April-2001 by Craig Berry craigberry@mac.com.  
+Revised 10-October-2001 by Craig Berry craigberry@mac.com.  
 Revised 25-February-2000 by Peter Prymmer pvhp@best.com.  
 Revised 27-October-1999 by Craig Berry craigberry@mac.com.  
 Revised 01-March-1999 by Dan Sugalski dan@sidhe.org.